NAVY15636B
Image copyright: © Australian War Memorial
- ID number
- NAVY15636B
- Photographer
- RAN Public Relations
- Object type
- Black & white - Film original negative 5x4" safety base
- Place made
- Vietnam: Phuoc Tuy Province, Vung Tau
- Date made
- c 3 February 1968
- Collection
- Photograph
- Description
- The RAN converted aircraft carrier, HMAS Sydney (III) has dropped anchor at Vung Tau, South Vietnam, after bringing 291 reinforcements, and 280 tons of ordnance supplies, including 56 vehicles and 50 tons of explosives to the Australian force in Vietnam. Hovering above the deck, a US Army Skycrane helicopter lifts a truck from the deck of HMAS Sydney in prior to ferrying it ashore by air.
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